i haven't read a visual novel in a long time
i've heard great things
should i do it?
I'm a bit of a hater myself and definitely an outlier, so definitely pay attention to everyone replying, but:
I was told starting the main trilogy that it's worth pushing through Muv Luv Extra (the first game) to get to The Good Stuff. I'm not saying there's nothing good at the end of this thing (there are parts I like I promise), but in the end I think extra is the part I look back on most fondly. And it's still not super great! The characters and themes are not deep enough to carry a trilogy for the most part, so there's a lot of wheel spinning and stuff that ultimately doesn't matter. I'd try and get engaged with the story, lock onto things that seemed important, think about the characters deeply, and I would often even be right but in a deeply boring way. The story is fundamentally uninterested in a lot of its most interesting ideas, the protagonist's development being one of the bigger missed opportunities imo.
On top of that the writing can be very conservative, even for the time. There's a...we'll say, a Character With Gender™, who is broadly handled confusingly at best and poorly at worst. And without getting into spoilery details, there's a real move towards making war apolitical, which I don't think serves some of the best parts of the story.
I remember reading someone involved with muv luv was getting into NFTs and I was unsurprised, lol.
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